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[Spoiler Description](#s "Spock dies at the end of The Wrath of Khan!")

I was born in 1970, the year TOS went syndi. I grew up on that show and when I was really little that salt vampire, probably mostly because of the mouth, scared the shit out of me. But I still watched :)

I agree, it was a great idea, this totally alien creature which simply ate to survive. It reminded me of King Kong when it was destroyed, feeling like something misunderstood was destroyed due to fear and hate.

That's why it's my favorite. It isn't evil, it didn't have some major plot twist or grand master plan....it just was. We sought to understand it, we feared it, and a person with malevolence destroyed it.

Yes, I always loved the Horta. I know by today's standards its hokey but back then people would remark on it who never even watched star trek. And how many 1960's shows were discussing silicon life forms?

I gotta give a shout out to the Horta as well. Besides being a pretty good monster design for its time, it was utilized extremely well as an early Trek example of how humankind's own perception would have to expand to comprehend and live peacefully in a larger universe. That notion, that peaceful coexistence requires acceptance of strange and unfamiliar things and ways of being, is my favorite theme in Star Trek.

For me the Planet Killer does it. Not only am I a fan of the Doomsday Machine episode of TOS, but my first Star Trek novel that I read was Vendetta where the Planet Killer returns, along with the borg!

I always liked the parasites from "Conspiracy" (TNG) that took over StarFleet command. If the Borg had been clever enough to try something this subtle, they would have a lot more success in their assimilations.

He was an omnipotent being much like Q, who in a moment of pain and grief over the killing of his wife wiped out an entire species, committing genocide.

He makes a compelling villain because he's so sympathetic - his despair so relatable. And yet, as a Douwd - a species with limitless power who are sworn to not use their powers to intervene, he kills off the Husnock, a species of 50 billion individuals.

Every last man woman and child, the innocent, not just the ones who attacked the colony he and his wife inhabit, but every last one of them, everywhere were extinct in the blink of an eye.

Hehe my best friend lived next door to the fellow who played Kevin. We were instant fans of his episode and honestly, him aside, its one of my all time favorites. I've watched it so much I dont have to watch it again -I can just close my eyes and replay it verbatim. To this day, when I'm talking on the phone with that friend, if either of us says, "all of them," the other invariably says, "all the Husnak...everywhere."

When I was watching Voyager I was really hoping 8472 would be the new 'Borg' of the franchise. Although the Collective is intimidating, by the end of Scorpion their reputation had been damaged. We the audience had seen them destroyed on a massive scale.

8472, they were new. Unknown and getting scraped by one caused tendrils to grow in your nose.

The neural parasite that attacked Deneva it didn't try to give pleasure like other parasites like the spores of Omicron Theta but controlled via great pain. Plus the being able to yell at people to warn them was unsettling, as was the way individual parasites seemed to breathe. Also, the line, "But Captain, they don't even look real!" was as awesome as it was ballsy.

lol yeah, a line they didnt even the gall to utter about the monsters in Gallileo 7 lol.

Loved that episode though. When I was a kid, those things scared the shit out of me, despite just being little flying fake-vomit puddles. The way they hung under ceilings and waited to attack, coupled with the noises they made, just freaked my little self out.

In all seriousness, though, I loved the gorn, simply because the fight with it was so dramatic. I knew that if Kirk let it catch him, he would die, and I was tense the whole time. "RUN, KIRK, RUN! OH CRAP, OH CRAP, IT'S GETTING CLOSE!"